Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog

This is another thing that I think  has already seen or if she hasn't should.  It's a musical from Joss Whedon the writer for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Serenity.

If you aren't  , you should check this out anyway.  I like it.  There is a really good job of editing on the last few seconds.  A really good job of editing can really intensify the message of a show.  Don't believe me.  Watch it.

A great investment for Fossil watch owners

I have a lot of watches from Fossil.  Whenever the batteries die, I'm unable to take the backs off of the watches.  I end up just taking them to Fossil to replace the batteries.  Fossil, of course, charges $12 for a battery and many of their watches use two batteries.  Watch batteries rarely cost more than $3.50 and you can find them for as little as $1/each online.  I found this waterproof watch back removal tool for $8 online (and that included shipping).  It paid for itself on the first battery change and I'm changing 7 batteries for four watches.  Yay me!

In addition to Fossil or any jeweler being an expensive place to change watch batteries, Fossil often didn't even carry the correct batteries.  They always acted like their older watches used obscure batteries that they didn't stock anymore.  In truth, they use the most common watch battery size on the market. 

Adventures at Walmart

Today, I went out to buy supplies to make a $5 HDTV antenna.  It has cost me about $20 already and even though you can get antennas for as little as $10, I am not deterred. 

During my adventure, I went to Walmart.  At said Walmart, I went to the McDonald's for an iced coffee.  By the way, McDonald's regular iced coffee is the best in my opinion, tons better than Starbucks and cheaper too.  Anyway, while ordering a woman barged in, asking if they had any longer straws.  The worker claimed that they did not.  She complained that they needed longer straws.  The worker appologized.  She then pushed the straw all the way into the drink and showed how the straw barely came out of the cup.  She said in utter outrage, "Look at that!" 
The worker stated, "I'm sorry, I don't order the straws." 
I added, "Oh no, life is over as we know it."  To which she casted me a mad glanced and stormed off.  I feel bad for McDonald's workers.  It is already a horrible job, but working at a McDonald's in a Walmart must be the lowest job in the world.

Back in the electronics department, I caught a conversation between a woman and a sole worker at the electronics cash register.  She asked, "Can you take that to the front?  I need to go get some money."  Which I translated to mean, 'I see you are alone in your station.  You can just give me the expensive, locked-up merchandise and I will take it to the front and won't steal it.  I promise.'  I only say this, because the woman was extremely dirty and desperate looking.

I decided to go to self checkout because I like self checkout.  I get to pretend that I'm a checkout person.  Little Greg says that it is unethical to go to self checkout because it takes away people's jobs.  I, on the other hand, find self checkout to be a wonderful product.  I'm totally sold on it.  I get to play store and I don't have to face another human being...yay!  So, there were three checkouts.  In the first one was a woman with two small children.  When she finished, she asked her 4 year old son sitting in the cart, "You got the money?"
He replied opening his spiderman wallet, "You're going to pay me back, right?"
"Mmmmhmmm," she replied.
On the second checkout was a manish woman buying large quanties of pet supplies including large bags of dog food.
On the third checkout was a group of 4 latino gentemen paying in the cash accepter with twenty extremely crinkled one-dollar bills. 
It took forever to get out of Walmart.

G-mail April Fool's Day Joke

Check out the G-mail April Fool's Day joke before they take it down.  It is pretty funny this year:

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I still hate Nancy Grace

I was stuck watching her at work again.  By the way, people that watch the show are absolutely into it 100%.  Anyway, she was talking about the movies that Caysey Anthony rented around the time that her daughter, Caylee Anthony was murdered.  One of the movies was "Jumper", which Nancy Grace referred to as a movie about a mother that abandons her child.  The implication being, it sure is suspicious timing.  I don't know if you have seen "Jumper", but I have and I don't even remember a mother in it.  I'm sure a mother does abandon the hero for some reason, but that wasn't the gyst of the film.  It is about a man that can teleport.  At no time, does Nancy Grace refer to this movie as anything other than a story about a mother that abandons her child.  One time she even replaced the word "child" with "tot", a subtle nod to how she refers to Caylee.

The Big Business of Child Killing

I thought about titling this entry, "The Economic Impact of Caylee Anthony", but opted for the above instead. 

At my job, on my breaks, I have the unfortunate opportunity to watch Nancy Grace ad nauseam.  As you may or may not know, Caylee Anthony was a little girl who was, at first, missing and then found murdered.  The primary suspect is her mother, Casey Anthony.  Nancy Grace spends an hour each day going over every tiny, insignificant piece of non-evidence that presents itself.  For instance, Nancy Grace made a big hubabalu about the mother having pork rinds brought in to the prison where she is being held.  Her stance, of course, is that how can you eat pork rinds when your child is murdered....she must be guilty.  She has taken videotaped conversations that "tot mom" Casey has had with her parents in prison and analyzed them to death.  If Casey talks about not liking being in prison, Nancy tirades of how she should only be thinking about Caylee and how horrible that is...therefore she is guilty.  Nancy went so far as to find Target surveillance tape of Casey buying beer while Caylee was missing.  Who cares?  Nancy does!  "She's buying beer when she should be sitting at home worrying!"  Maybe she is buying beer because she is worrying.

Don't get me wrong, I think that Casey probably did do it.  I'm just not a big fan of trial by media.  Look at Gary Condit.  The media made him out as the killer, 100%.  Now that he is innocent, they are making it sound like it was all his fault that he looked to guilty.  Maybe.  Or maybe the media shouldn't be the one's making the judgements.

In any case, the point of this whole post is to point out that I've seen at least 40 1-hour shows dedicated or mostly dedicated to Caylee Anthony.  All the way from "Where's Caylee?" to "Tot Mom's suspicious behavior".  Nancy Grace is raking in some serious advertiser money from this one child murder.  The show also brings in "experts" for Nancy to agree with or yell at.  They are paid as well.  So, we have Nancy Grace, producers, directors, camera people, experts, as well as people paid for photographs, interviews and privately shot video.  That's a lot of money exchanging hands over someone dying.  Ultimately, I'm sure the amount is easily in the millions.  This irks me so much that I've decided to commit the rookie atrocity of comparing it to nazi Germany.  It is the equivalent of making money off the forced labor of the jewish people.  It is the taking of someone's pain and making a profit off of it with no benefit going to the offended member.  Heil Nancy Gracy, Heil!
Guilty until proven innocent.

The real irony is that Nancy Grace's book is titled, "Objection! -- How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System"

Melinda Duckett committed suicide apparently because of treatment from Nancy Grace.  Casey Anthony's father attempted suicide partly from the media attention his daughter had been receiving from Nancy Grace. 

She was relentless on the Duke's Lacrosse team, who was proven innocent.  The day the Lacrosse team was vindicated, Nancy Grace had a substitute anchor.

For more Nancy Grace atrocities or to learn more about nazi Germany, visit her Wikipedia page.

Ground Turkey

I think ground turkey is extremely bland.  I found though that if I cook it in soy sauce and pepper, it soaks up all the flavor.  I realize this is a stupid entry because I'm surrounded by vegetarians and I secretly wish to be a vegetarian.  In any case, if you eat ground turkey, try it with soy sauce!